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Trouble for our nation's oldest surviving President. Mr. Carter fell and broke his hip. The former leader beat cancer about a year ago. Let's pray for a speedy recovery.
Three Junior Congresswomen
They always seem to find themselves in the headlines. They are AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. This week, Tlaib took center stage. Take a look at this quote. Tlaib says the Holocaust brings her a calming feeling.
Google & Political Bias
No surprise here. A study conducted by Northwestern University broke down the top sites most often seen when searches are conducted. You'll notice CNN commands a huge share of impressions. When combined, CNN, New York Times, and Washington Post equal 23% of the results.
Two big stories. First, Democrat politicians are continuing their attempts at changing the way the debt is looked at. New legislation is being introduced to allow for a bankruptcy filing to permit student loan debt. As of now, the debt is restricted from a filing.
Story two is the US Government is going after default debtors in some aggressive ways. Take a look at this. Not sure if Trump wants to be on this side of the argument.
We're up to 22 now.
And Another One
Wiener Is Out
Disgraced politician Anthony Weiner is officially out of his halfway house. Hide the kids.
Florida and 2016
The election that will never die. Take a look at this info that Florida's new governor divulged this week.
Alabama Abortion
An incredibly strict abortion law was enacted this week in Alabama. Expect this fight to escalate in the higher courts.
This is America. We are Republic and acknowledge State's rights. However, this is quite the reach, and that's being polite. Abortion, when it pertains to America's laws, should be treated with a libertarian philosophy. Leave the government out of the choice. Permit the abortion. It is a personal decision. Leave it at that.
It feels like Hollywood has officially given up on Batman. First, Christopher Nolan leaves the franchise. Then, Affleck nearly destroyed it. Now, this?
Detective Pikachu did not dethrone Avengers However, it did amass a sizable victory in its first weekend at the box office.
Top Box Office Franchises
Speaking of movies. A fantastic piece was put together here if you want to see which franchise has earned more money over time.
Of course, we have to mention that Endgame remains number one at the box office for the third week in a row. Endgame will ultimately pass Avatar for the highest grossing film ever. Then, someone will quickly pen the piece that says, "Well, when you adjust against inflation it actually isn't even close to Gone With The Wind."
College Cheating Scandal
Aunt Becky still thinks she did nothing wrong, but former Desperate Housewife Felicity Huffman pleaded out and is looking at four months in jail. Expect that to be reduced as well.
YouTube Drama
Here's the story. A successful YouTube star befriended an aspiring makeup artist a few years back. She, along with her husband, confided in the young man and worked hard to build up his brand. It was a great story of paying it forward. Well, until a few weeks ago.
The aspiring makeup artist is hardly aspiring anymore. With over 14,000,000 followers, he has become a behemoth in the space. He ultimately decided to receive payment from a competing company of his mentors and that's when all hell broke lose. His mentor posted a 46-minute video explaining the situation. He lost over one million subscribers in less than a day. Welcome to capitalism!
Take a look at this exchange. The guy who sings Old Town Road took a picture with Kanye via Kim's phone. First, notice how North is not feeling it. Lil Nas X reached out to Kim via Twitter for the pic. She answered his request and posted the picture. Also, this video of North dancing to the song is hilarious. Check it out here.
Couch Potato Sunday
Did anyone leave their seats Sunday besides hugging Mom?
The hit NBC drama has been renewed through Season 6. The ending has allegedly already been filmed.
Gay Cartoon Character
Season 22 of Arthur brought out a gay character. Also, did anyone know Arthur was actually still creating new episodes?
Disney officially owns all of Hulu as an amazing stretch of media consolidation concludes. It appears that Disney not only weathered any apparent storm, but came out better than before. CEO Bob Iger is worth every dollar.
Fans are not entertained.
Ever hear of them? Probably not. They are the Korean Pop Boy Band taking America by storm. The group is immensely famous outside of the US. They are in the midst of their American tour and graced NYC with their presence in recent days. The band played Central Park for free for Good Morning America. They also performed on SNL and other shows such as Colbert. Finally, they sold out Met Life Stadium.
Twelve seasons. 278 episodes. The CBS staple came to an end Thursday night.
One of the first (animal) viral sensations has passed away.
Weed Killer Cancer
Fallout from Roundup continues. The weed killer, now proven to cause Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, is in a heap of trouble. German conglomerate Bayer acquired Monsanto before the first judgment. Two bad headlines dropped on Monday.
First – Another ruling against Bayer brought the damages to over $2 billion.
Second – French authorities are investigating Bayer for allegedly trying to bribe journalists and lawmakers.
401(k) Balances
Take a look at the results from Fidelity regarding the average balance of retirement accounts in Q1 of 2019. How do you stack up?
Federal Reserve Governors
Trump has struggled mightily to get his picks through confirmation and on the Federal Reserve. This week, he announced his new candidate. Ms. Shelton is a proponent of free trade and the gold standard. Seems counterintuitive to a president isolating the American economy with tariffs, and running up tremendous deficits.
What do you get when you have an incredibly prideful China fighting against an egotistical America First leader? A trade war. Here we go.
The first area of concern is Caterpillar and Boeing. Two of America's industrial giants came under heavy fire this week. Caterpillar does a lot of business in China, and these tariffs will undoubtedly hurt them. CAT lost 6.5% on the week. Boeing was a different reason. The fear is China will directly target the already battered jet maker to force Trump's hand.
Wednesday and Thursday brought much needed relief. Tariff Man announced he will delay tariffs on automobiles for six months. The market finished the week down about 1%.
Apple & Monopoloy
The Supreme Court ruled against Apple earlier this week in a case that likely spurs antitrust legislation. You know, those cases where you get $2 back in three years and lawyers get incredibly rich. Apple lost 4% on the week.
Boeing … Week Nine
Speaking of Boeing, Bloomberg put together a tremendous piece you can read here. The piece highlights the pending litigation the company faces from both crashes. Also, shareholders are suing the company for artificially pumping up the stock price. It's becoming tough to see Boeing become an attractive buy again until their legal battles conclude and the trade war with China tempers.
The news worsens for the company. Check out what happened between the Pilots Union and Boeing between the first and second crash. This quote from the meeting courtesy of American Airlines pilot Michael Michaelis is quite damning.
These guys didn't even know the damn system was on the airplane — nor did anybody else
A little bit of good news for Boeing to wrap up the week. Boeing finished the week unchanged. They are down 15% since the second crash on March 10.
Cigarette Advertising
Americans may be turning their backs on the cancer sticks, but the rest of the world has no problem sucking down the cancerous agents. Tobacco conglomerate, Philip Morris found itself in hot water for the umpteenth time. Why? They were covertly paying Instagram 'Influencers' in Russia to indirectly 'market' their products to young individuals. Disgusting.
Ride Share Disaster … Week 2
Both companies started the week off with big loses, but gradually rose each day. Lyft finished the week up 5%, and Uber eked out a 1% gain. Don't you feel bad for all the executives and IPO recipients who are losing money while Uber and Lyft drivers barely make a buck?
Is Bitcoin Back?
Cryptos are so 2017. It's all about Pot stocks and ride shares now. Anyway, Bitcoin has been on a tear as of late. Check it out.
WhatsApp Hack
Shocker. Another Facebook owned company is the subject of a hack. #TooBigToFail
EU Arbitrage Fine
Take a look at this headline. Five major banks were slapped on the wrist by the regulatory body of the EU. Why? The companies were finding ways to manipulate foreign currency markets. The tactics would enable the banks to create a market that they could essentially control. How? They were the buyers and sellers. This would enable the banks to increase profits in a rapid and relatively efficient way.
Huawei & China
The US continues its assault against the Chinese telecom giant. This week, the Department of Commerce added the company to a list restricting US companies from buying and selling their products.
Also, The Netherlands has now accused China of spying on Dutch citizens through Huawei. Take a look at this report.
It is important to note that this is not America's first rodeo with Chinese telecom makers. America blacklisted ZTE In 2017 and nearly bankrupted the company in the process.
China Retaliates
Canada was the nation who arrested and detained Huawei's CFO a few months back to begin this mess. China quickly rounded up two Canadians and charged them with espionage. The men now face the death penalty in China. China hopes the world will "respect their justice system." You know, the justice system where an autocratic communist government retaliates because they got caught cheating and then decide to kill two people to make a statement. But, tariffs aren't the answer? What the hell is then?
Soccer leads the Sports section for the second week in a row. Manchester City won their second straight Premier League Championship, and third title in six seasons. Dynasty Alert!
Only one day after they celebrated their title, this headline was published by the New York Times. Uh Oh.
The Raptors beat Philly with a game-winning shot of epic proportions in Game 7 as time expired. Unbelievable. They will play Milwaukee in the Eastern Conference Final.
The Blazers outlasted Denver to get the rights to lose to Golden State. The storyline from the Portland v Warriors series is Durant. He was expected to be out for only Game 1, and possibly Game 2. Now, he is out for Game 3 and Game 4. Also, the Curry brothers are playing against one another in the Western Conference Final.
Good hire for Cleveland. Now, if they only had players.
GREAT combination of coaches added to the Lakers staff. This is a fantastic move in the right direction. Now, let's see if they can add some marquee talent to work alongside LeBron next season. Good start.
Twitter Snafu
The Padres changed their Twitter name to the Madres in honor of Mother's Day. Great, feel good story, right? Wrong. Some teenager across the country snatched up Padres and made the handle his own. Well, MLB and Twitter stepped in and awarded Padres back to San Diego by the end of the day. All in good fun.
Kristaps was involved in a bad fight it Latvia over the weekend. The video was bad as he walked out of the club, bloodied face, and proceeded to shove a woman out of his way. Allegedly, he was jumped by Russians who were angry he left NY. ALWAYS the RUSSIANS.
The Packers QB actually acted in the most recent episode of Game of Thrones.
NBA Draft Lottery
The biggest day ever for Knicks fans since Patrick Ewing. Here, the odds before the ping pong balls were drawn.
What happened once the ping pong balls were drawn? The PELICANS of New Orleans landed the number one pick! Absolute stunner. They had a 6% chance. This drastically changes NBA free agency. Will Anthony Davis remain a Pelican now that he has top tier talent coming his way? What does that mean for the Lakers and Knicks?
Chris Sale
The Boston Red Sox pitcher who struggled to start the season appears to have found his mojo. Sale had SEVENTEEN strike outs in SEVEN innings. A record for MLB. What did the Sox do? They took him out of the game. Baseball makes no sense.
The Dysfunctional Jets
It rings off the tongue, right? Look at this excellent breakdown of their never ending problems.
Baltimore Cyber Attack
Last week, the city of Baltimore was affected by a ransomware cyber attack. The hackers requested Bitcoin, or they'd restrict access to government systems. Eight days later, and the attack remains ongoing. It has become so bad that real estate transactions cannot take place due to the inability to pull titles and deeds. Take a look at some additional information.
Cruise Ship Roller Coaster
Take a look at the renderings from Carnival. They intend to put a roller coaster on a cruise ship. The first of its kind.
Cruise Ship Air Disaster
Bad news out of Alaska with regard to cruise ships. We lost five individuals when two seaplanes collided.
Scary stuff out of Alabama. Check out the news regarding the FBI uncovering a terror camp in the state.
Top Baby Names of 2018
You have to watch the amazing/creepy video out of the Salvador Dali museum in Florida where a holographic Dali literally takes an actual selfie with you. It is amazing! The surrealist painter would have loved this.
Retiree Migration Trends
Take a look at what cities and states are stockpiling retirees in droves.
US Teacher Compensation
No surprise here. America does not pay their teachers well, but take a look at how bad it really is.
Terrifying footage from NYC. Luckily, everyone survived. Check out the crash here.
Saudi Arabia Attack?
The Americans believe this was Iran. That is problematic. Do not expect this story to fade away. Also, America have removed diplomats from their embassy in Baghdad. Is Trump going to stop John Bolton's path to war?
The Saudis officially blamed Iran on Thursday. The possibility of war appears to be escalating fast.
Air Landing Disaster Averted
Good news when a Myanmar jet landed safely without its front landing gear.
Catholic Church Targeted Shooting
Bad news out of Burkina Faso. A Catholic Church was the target of a gruesome murder. Catholics are unquestionably under attack in this region. Take a look for yourself.
5. Chance of a US Recession in 2019 = 10%
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle. And a very happy start
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Skyward has accelerated its time to market and increased its competitive edge with its Cloud-based Progress OpenEdge solutions. The flexibility of Roundtable TSMS enables Skyward to rapidly meet the needs of its customers and respond to market change while maintaining the highest levels of efficiency and quality through software configuration management and version control.
For over 15 years, Skyward has relied on the Roundtable® Total Software Management System (TSMS) to optimize and streamline its Progress OpenEdge® development environment. A leading provider of K-12 school administrative software, Skyward serves over 1,700 school districts with its integrated student, finance, and human resources suite of products.
Skyward chose Roundtable TSMS over competing solutions because it was based on Progress OpenEdge and because Roundtable TSMS was an extremely intuitive, easy-to-use system. "Given we were already a Progress shop, it made sense to go with another OpenEdge-based solution. At the time we had 30 developers and I was able to get them all up and running with Roundtable TSMS within just two hours. Roundtable TSMS is incredibly intuitive and provides the level of automation and functionality we need to optimize our development efforts," says Schuh.
Since first implementing Roundtable TSMS in 1999, Skyward's business has changed significantly, tripling in size and moving from a Waterfall development approach to an Agile development methodology. "Despite adding more customers, more features, more developers, moving to SaaS and transforming our internal development strategy, Roundtable TSMS has kept pace with us each step of the way. It has continued to meet our expectations and be the best solution for us. With Roundtable TSMS and Progress OpenEdge, there are no limitations to what we can do," says Ackerlund.
Today, Skyward uses Roundtable TSMS to support its complex Agile development environment. The company uses Scrum teams to focus on different modules or enhancements across the two product lines. Not only are the teams working on development projects in parallel to support upcoming releases, but they are also constantly working on fixes and enhancements for previous releases.
For added security, Roundtable TSMS enables Skyward to secure all of their Workspaces (i.e., a configuration or view of the application at the given point in the lifecycle) and designate different permission levels. The senior programmers have the most rights to the schemas, as well as the ability to promote programs to specific Workspaces. And when the company is cutting releases, senior programmers have the ability to lock all Workspaces to ensure no programming changes can go into effect.
The flexibility Roundtable TSMS affords is also crucial in an industry governed by a plethora of federal and state requirements. "With regulations constantly changing, it is critical that we provide customers with updates quickly to ensure their compliance. Roundtable TSMS and Progress OpenEdge gives us that ability to rapidly respond to market change. Our agility to help districts meet those guidelines error-free has become a true competitive advantage," says Ackerlund.
Growing its business by a factor of three and scaling to support districts with upwards of 75,000 students, Skyward has evolved to become a formidable leader in its industry. For close to 20 years the company has relied on Progress OpenEdge to deliver state-of-the-art, competitive solutions.
"We first chose Progress OpenEdge because we liked the fact that the programming language and database came from the same vendor. We've been happy with Progress ever since. OpenEdge has proven to be a highly productive, scalable and innovative platform; it has never held us back," says Schuh.
Seven years ago, the company developed a SaaS offering of its solutions to penetrate new markets, increase its incremental revenue, and reduce both the sales and implementation cycle time. "Progress was extremely helpful during that transition period, from both an educational and resource standpoint. Talking with experts and taking part in various Partner+ Program Empowerment offerings helped us understand how SaaS was going to impact our business, how to mitigate any risks, and what changes we needed to make from a marketing and sales perspective to support the new model. It has been an outstanding change for our business," says Ackerlund.
In fact, two states that recently identified Skyward as a preferred vendor, Tennessee and Texas, both mandated SaaS as a requirement for consideration. "We wouldn't have even had the opportunity to bid on those deals, much less win them, without our SaaS offering," says Ackerlund.
Compared to its on-premise offering, Skyward has slashed the implementation cycle with SaaS from one year down to six months or less. The company recently completed a large implementation for Fort Bend Independent School District in just three and a half months – a district with 70,000 students, 74 campuses and almost 8,000 employees. Since implementing Skyward, Fort Bend ISD has succeeded in driving operational consistency and discipline across the district, and increased the efficiency and productivity of the administrators.
"The implementation was nothing short of extraordinary. In three and a half months … we were able to integrate the Skyward system with other critical business systems, change our overall business processes dramatically, and train our employees on the new system and processes—right before the start of school. I think that is a phenomenal accomplishment," says Robert Calvert, Chief Information Officer for Fort Bend ISD.


H.B. Fuller is a global innovator with its roots in adhesives. As part of their commitment to improve the lives of people around the world, H.B. Fuller took on the challenge to reduce the amount of materials leaving their facilities as trash. The waste reduction initiative began in 2016 when they first met with BizRecycling's Recycling Expert, Minnesota Waste Wise, to identify opportunities for improved recycling and waste diversion, and continues today as they work to improve their organics recycling collection.
H.B. Fuller implemented organics recycling to significantly reduce the amount of material leaving their facilities as trash. They used their BizRecycling grant to purchase bins, signs, certified compostable products, and bin liners. "This is a project we were very committed to and it was nice to learn we could start without spending a bunch of money," commented Adam Senart, with Facilities Management who has led the recycling initiatives. H.B. Fuller then added organics recycling pick-up services with their waste hauler, and launched the initiative to more than 500 employees across the two facilities.


Sometimes it's the simple things that make all the difference. Take this savoury yogurt-based raita, a quick sauce that tastes fantastic alongside Indian food, served as a dip for fresh veggies, or drizzled over grilled eggplant, chicken, lamb and pork.
This recipe is designed to provide one dose of cannabis, and can be scaled up or down accordingly.
Crush mint in mortar and pestle.
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Home / About / News / Artificial Leaf Harnesses Sunlight for Efficient Fuel Production
Artificial Leaf Harnesses Sunlight for Efficient Fuel Production
Generating and storing renewable energy, such as solar or wind power, is a key barrier to a clean-energy economy. When the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) was established at Caltech and its partnering institutions in 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Innovation Hub had one main goal: a cost-effective method of producing fuels using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, mimicking the natural process of photosynthesis in plants and storing energy in the form of chemical fuels for use on demand. Over the past five years, researchers at JCAP have made major advances toward this goal, and they now report the development of the first complete, efficient, safe, integrated solar-driven system for splitting water to create hydrogen fuels.
"This result was a stretch project milestone for the entire five years of JCAP as a whole, and not only have we achieved this goal, we also achieved it on time and on budget," says Caltech's Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry, and the JCAP scientific director.
The new solar fuel generation system, or artificial leaf, is described in the August 27 online issue of the journal Energy and Environmental Science. The work was done by researchers in the laboratories of Lewis and Harry Atwater, director of JCAP and Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science.
"This accomplishment drew on the knowledge, insights and capabilities of JCAP, which illustrates what can be achieved in a Hub-scale effort by an integrated team," Atwater says. "The device reported here grew out of a multi-year, large-scale effort to define the design and materials components needed for an integrated solar fuels generator."
Solar Fuels Prototype in Operation
A fully integrated photoelectrochemical device performing unassisted solar water splitting for the production of hydrogen fuel. Credit: Erik Verlage and Chengxiang Xiang/Caltech
The new system consists of three main components: two electrodes—one photoanode and one photocathode—and a membrane. The photoanode uses sunlight to oxidize water molecules, generating protons and electrons as well as oxygen gas. The photocathode recombines the protons and electrons to form hydrogen gas. A key part of the JCAP design is the plastic membrane, which keeps the oxygen and hydrogen gases separate. If the two gases are allowed to mix and are accidentally ignited, an explosion can occur; the membrane lets the hydrogen fuel be separately collected under pressure and safely pushed into a pipeline.
Semiconductors such as silicon or gallium arsenide absorb light efficiently and are therefore used in solar panels. However, these materials also oxidize (or rust) on the surface when exposed to water, so cannot be used to directly generate fuel. A major advance that allowed the integrated system to be developed was previous work in Lewis's laboratory, which showed that adding a nanometers-thick layer of titanium dioxide (TiO2)—a material found in white paint and many toothpastes and sunscreens—onto the electrodes could prevent them from corroding while still allowing light and electrons to pass through. The new complete solar fuel generation system developed by Lewis and colleagues uses such a 62.5-nanometer-thick TiO2 layer to effectively prevent corrosion and improve the stability of a gallium arsenide–based photoelectrode.
Another key advance is the use of active, inexpensive catalysts for fuel production. The photoanode requires a catalyst to drive the essential water-splitting reaction. Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper, active catalyst by adding a 2-nanometer-thick layer of nickel to the surface of the TiO2. This catalyst is among the most active known catalysts for splitting water molecules into oxygen, protons, and electrons and is a key to the high efficiency displayed by the device.
The photoanode was grown onto a photocathode, which also contains a highly active, inexpensive, nickel-molybdenum catalyst, to create a fully integrated single material that serves as a complete solar-driven water-splitting system.
A critical component that contributes to the efficiency and safety of the new system is the special plastic membrane that separates the gases and prevents the possibility of an explosion, while still allowing the ions to flow seamlessly to complete the electrical circuit in the cell. All of the components are stable under the same conditions and work together to produce a high-performance, fully integrated system. The demonstration system is approximately one square centimeter in area, converts 10 percent of the energy in sunlight into stored energy in the chemical fuel, and can operate for more than 40 hours continuously.
"This new system shatters all of the combined safety, performance, and stability records for artificial leaf technology by factors of 5 to 10 or more ," Lewis says.
"Our work shows that it is indeed possible to produce fuels from sunlight safely and efficiently in an integrated system with inexpensive components," Lewis adds, "Of course, we still have work to do to extend the lifetime of the system and to develop methods for cost-effectively manufacturing full systems, both of which are in progress."
Because the work assembled various components that were developed by multiple teams within JCAP, coauthor Chengxiang Xiang, who is co-leader of the JCAP prototyping and scale-up project, says that the successful end result was a collaborative effort. "JCAP's research and development in device design, simulation, and materials discovery and integration all funneled into the demonstration of this new device," Xiang says.
These results are published in a paper titled "A monolithically integrated, intrinsically safe, 10% efficient, solar-driven water-splitting system based on active, stable earth-abundant electrocatalysts in conjunction with tandem III-V light absorbers protected by amorphous TiO2 films." In addition to Lewis, Atwater, and Xiang, other Caltech coauthors include graduate student Erik Verlage, postdoctoral scholars Shu Hu and Ke Sun, material processing and integration research engineer Rui Liu, and JCAP mechanical engineer Ryan Jones. Funding was provided by the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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(From left to right): Chengxiang Xiang and Erik Verlage assemble a monolithically integrated III-V device, protected by a TiO2 stabilization layer, which performs unassisted solar water splitting with collection of hydrogen fuel and oxygen. Credit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech A highly efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) device uses the power of the sun to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The stand-alone prototype includes two chambers separated by a semi-permeable membrane that allows collection of both gas products. Credit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech Illustration of an efficient, robust and integrated solar-driven prototype featuring protected photoelectrochemical assembly coupled with oxygen and hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts. Credit: Image provided courtesy of Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis; artwork by Darius Siwek.
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(From left to right): Chengxiang Xiang and Erik Verlage assemble a monolithically integrated III-V device, protected by a TiO2 stabilization layer, which performs unassisted solar water splitting with collection of hydrogen fuel and oxygen.
Credit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech
A highly efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) device uses the power of the sun to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The stand-alone prototype includes two chambers separated by a semi-permeable membrane that allows collection of both gas products.
Illustration of an efficient, robust and integrated solar-driven prototype featuring protected photoelectrochemical assembly coupled with oxygen and hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts.
Credit: Image provided courtesy of Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis; artwork by Darius Siwek.
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Cody Layne Wallace (né le  à Cuero) est un joueur américain de football américain. Il joue actuellement avec les Steelers de Pittsburgh.

Enfance
Wallace étudie à la Cuero High School évoluant en Classe 3A du Texas. Il joue à divers postes de la ligne offensive. Le site Rivals.com le note trois étoiles sur cinq. Le coach de l'université A&M du Texas Dennis Franchione le remarque et lui propose une scolarité dans l'établissement, ce que Wallace accepte.

Carrière

Université
Il entre à l'université en 2003 et fait une saison comme redshirt. En 2004, il joue cinq matchs et est déterminé comme offensive guard remplaçant. L'année suivante, il obtient le poste de centre titulaire et joue tous les matchs de la saison.

En 2006, il devient le capitaine de l'équipe et commence à attirer l'attention, notamment grâce à sa mention honorable de l'année précédente, et est nommé dans la seconde équipe de la saison de la conférence Big 12. Pour sa dernière année à l'université, les médias placent de grands espoirs en ce joueur. Il est finaliste du prestigieux Rimington Award et demi-finaliste du Draddy Trophy.

Professionnel
Cody Wallace est sélectionné au quatrième tour du draft de la NFL de 2008 par les 49ers de San Francisco. L'entraîneur Mike Nolan, qui l'a entraîné pour le Senior Bowl déclarera que Wallace a été choisi pour ses talents de joueur de ligne offensif; il le comparera notamment à Jeremy Newberry. Wallace est nommé centre remplaçant d'Eric Heitmann. Le 23 juillet 2008, il signe un contrat de quatre ans avec San Francisco. Néanmoins, il est déclaré comme blessé et ne joue aucun match de sa saison de rookie. En 2009, il n'entre qu'au cours d'un seul match et est libéré à la veille de la saison 2010.

Le 22 septembre 2010, il signe avec l'équipe d'entraînement des Lions de Detroit mais il n'y reste pas longtemps et les Lions se séparent de lui le 3 octobre 2010. Dix jours après, il arrive dans l'équipe d'entraînement des Jets de New York avant que le 20 octobre, les Lions lui proposent un contrat pour intégrer l'équipe active (professionnel) qu'il accepte mais il ne joue là non plus aucun match.

Il est libéré par Detroit peu de temps après et il signe avec l'équipe d'entraînement des Texans de Houston avec qui il joue la pré-saison. Le 3 septembre 2011, il est libéré avant de revenir le 22 septembre.

Palmarès
 Mention honorable de la conférence Big 12 2005
 Seconde équipe de la conférence Big 12 2006
 Capitaine des Aggies du Texas en 2006 et 2007
 Finaliste du Rimington Award 2007
 Demi-finaliste du Draddy Trophy 2007
 Co-joueur de ligne offensive de la conférence Big 12 2007
 All-American 2007 selon Playboy
 Seconde équipe de la conférence Big 12 selon ESPN

Naissance en novembre 1984
Naissance dans le comté de DeWitt (Texas)
Joueur américain de football américain
Joueur des 49ers de San Francisco
Joueur des Lions de Détroit
Joueur des Jets de New York
Joueur des Texans de Houston
Joueur des Buccaneers de Tampa Bay
Joueur des Steelers de Pittsburgh
Centre (football américain)

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I am intrigued by that woman. Who is she, and what does she have up her sleeves?Also, in panel 3, Adorable Kid is adorable.
She is Aud! She is Arne's mom and the local "cheif" though her role is somewhat limited.
what, you're not going to try to detect motive first?
Ah, legality and Iceland. they were big on it. For instance, you exorcised a ghost by suing it for trespass.
REALLY? I didn't read that during my research but wow Viking Iceland is complicated and confusing.
Is Aud a Lawgiver as well as a chief?
Not really, no. Women weren't allowed to participate in law stuff. She knows the laws, and makes most of the decisions, but Ingolf is her proxy.
I need to read more about old Vikings stuff. :/ Books you recommend for starters?
WELL I listed all the viking books I've read (or need to read) here on my Goodreads. Probably the best to start with is Else Roesdahl's The Vikings. It's a great, basic overview of the culture. I also really enjoyed Neil Oliver's book (with the same title haha). His goes further back into the history of the area, and also incorporates how the Vikings affected the world at large. But yeah check out that list and see the reviews and maybe you'll find something you're interested in!
Well, having once had around 600 Icelandic in-laws (pretty much everyone is Garður), I did learn something of the country. While all the vikings were out a-viking, the more middle class settled in Iceland, away from all the thugs and Jarls.
Wow, that's a lot of in-laws.
Well that's pretty much what Iceland did, hahah.
I suppose the answer would be to turn Harold away.
I guess that is one option!
Haha! There aren't any now, but there were some when the Vikings arrived. They are single-handedly responsible for changing Iceland's ecology. It's pretty nuts.
Well we cannot entirely blame this one on the Vikings/Norse. Considering they arrived on Iceland, and Greenland, during the Medieval Warm Period when it would be possible to have trees on more of Iceland than today. But it is still possible to have trees on Iceland and they do. Apparently not all went away and a few clusters were preserved, by the church no less, and are expanding.


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Notes on Gay Life - Looking: The Movie
The English writer-director Andrew Haigh stepped into the spotlight at the end of last year with 45 Years. Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling play Geoff and Kate, a couple on the cusp of their forty-fifth anniversary whose relationship is shaken by the discovery of the body of the woman he lived with before he became involved with Kate. She disappeared on a hike in the Swiss Alps; her corpse is revealed in a melting glacier, and the thought of her preserved after all these years as she was when he lost her – and, it turns out, pregnant with his baby – prompts Geoff to revisit the life he had before he met Kate and imposes distance between them. 45 Years, which Haigh adapted from David Constantine's story "In Another Country," is like a classic film from the British New Wave era of the late fifties and sixties: thoughtful, literate, unconventional, understated and impeccably acted. (Rampling won most of the praise and the Oscar nomination, but good as she is, Courtenay is astonishing.)
In fact, 45 Years was an unusual project for Haigh, all of whose other works has been gay-themed. His previous movies were Greek Pete (2009), a documentary portrait of a rent boy, and Weekend (2011), about a footloose gay man (Tom Cullen) whose one-night stand with a stranger (Chris New) turns unexpectedly into a relationship. Weekend was my introduction to Haigh, and though it's not up to 45 Years I was struck by some of the qualities that drew critics and filmgoers to the later picture, particularly its unblinkered approach to the subject matter, its unsentimental treatment of the characters, the intricacy of the detail and the intimacy of the acting. And Haigh wrote five and directed ten of the eighteen episodes of HBO's half-hour TV series Looking, a buddy drama created by Michael Lannan about three gay friends living in present-day San Francisco: Patrick (Jonathan Groff), a video game designer in his late twenties (and the show's protagonist); Agustin (Frankie J. Alvarez), his college roommate and an aspiring photographer; and Dom (Murray Bartlett), who's about a decade older and is toiling in the restaurant business with the hopes of finally open his own place. Looking was one of the pleasant surprises of 2014, but it was short-lived: a second season failed to drum up enough viewers to encourage the network to pick it up for a third. (And season two was somewhat disappointing: as is often the case when a TV show with a borderline audience is renewed, Looking jacked up the soap opera element in an effort to make it more commercial.) HBO's compensation to its fans for canceling the series was a TV movie, recently aired, that Haigh wrote and directed, and I think it's just as good as 45 Years.
Labels: Film, Steve Vineberg, Television
Podcast: Interview with Director Fred Schepisi (1984)
Filmmaker Fred Schepisi.
From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts, at CJRT-FM (today Jazz 91.1) in Toronto. With the late Tom Fulton, who was the show's prime host and producer, we did a half-hour interview program where we talked to artists from all fields.
When I sat down with director Fred Schepisi in 1984, his film Iceman had just been released. In 1993, he would go on to direct Six Degrees of Separation (with Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, and Will Smith), based on John Guare's stage play. His most recent film was 2013's Words and Pictures, starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche.
– Kevin Courrier
Here is the full interview with Fred Schepisi as it aired on CJRT-FM in 1984.
Labels: Film, Interview, Kevin Courrier, Podcast
Mind Control: Playdead's INSIDE
Note: This review contains spoilers for INSIDE.
This review is for those who have played INSIDE to completion. If you haven't, then the following paragraphs – in which I praise this awe-inspiring achievement in design, gameplay, and storytelling and discuss my ideas about what it all means – will make little sense, and will likely ruin for you a game that I'm already considering among my favourites of 2016, and possibly ever. Consider yourself duly warned. (And if you haven't already, please pick up and play INSIDE at the earliest opportunity – it's in 2D, it uses two buttons, it's only about 6-total-hours long, and it only costs $25 across most platforms. No excuses.)
A Voice That Still Matters - Barbra: The Music, The Mem'ries, The Magic & Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
A couple of week's ago I had the pleasure and the ticket money, to hear and see Barbra Streisand's concert in Toronto. It was the last of a nine-city "tour" called, Barbra: The Music, The Mem'ries, The Magic and the set list was a cross section of her 35 albums with stories about her life in show business. But I wasn't there for some nostalgic trip down memory lane, I wanted to hear one of the great voices in music and I wasn't disappointed. Streisand sang every note with passion and commitment. Her 10-piece band was mixed low as her voice filled the Air Canada Centre in front of a packed house: reaching the ceiling. Streisand is a woman with a very high standard of excellence who sets the bar high and maintains it. Witnessing a Barbra Streisand concert means that you enter her world, which is principally about music but also includes political commentary and a word about her foundation which supports many social justice causes and women's health.
When it comes to the hits Streisand often tells the story of the time she went to see Charles Aznavour, the popular French singer, at a concert in the sixties, but she was disappointed when he didn't perform her favourite song; a song she really wanted to hear. That changed her life as a performer because she recognized that many people would come to her concert expecting to hear their favourite Streisand track. Consequently, her recent show included five of her all-time hits, "Evergreen," "People," "Happy Days Are Here Again," "Don't Rain On My Parade," and "The Way We Were," which opened the concert. All the rest of the songs are her picks: eagerly accepted by an adoring audience. For this particular tour she had 35 albums from which to choose a set list. Has she ever cut a bad record? Let's put it this way: some records are more successful than others but they all have her stamp of excellence even if the music isn't always memorable.
Labels: John Corcelli, Music
Love, Death and Rock & Roll: Rich Cohen's The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones
"Menace is most effective when its limits are not known. [Mick] Jagger's 'demonic' persona was not enhanced by the death at Altamont, as some people have supposed; it was destroyed. In the face of one man's real death, Jagger's 'demonic' posture was shown to be merely perverse."
- George Trow, "Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse." The New Yorker, May 29 and June 5, 1978.
In his 2012 documentary, Crossfire Hurricane, filmmaker Brett Morgen (Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) showed how the impudent rebellion of The Rolling Stones' music and their volatile stage performances in the Sixties, which inspired riots everywhere, came from the adolescent impulse to run the table. Unlike The Beatles, who were a still center in a swirling hurricane of love, The Rolling Stones sought out the high winds. They gleefully fanned the flames of discontent until the sweet kick of revolt became a turbulent act of mutiny. But once death greeted them with the passing of co-founder Brian Jones in 1969, and violence and murder answered them at the Altamont Speedway later that same year, the chickens finally came home to roost. From there, it was childhood's end. Their bad boy behavior quickly became a corporate brand of sanctified naughtiness. That branding not only insulated them from the tumult their concerts had created, but it would also rob their music in time of its pulsing vitality. Crossfire Hurricane, taken from the lyrics of their scorching masterpiece, "Jumpin' Jack Flash," is in many ways a coming of age story about the taming of artistic danger.
There's also an urgent quest to peel open the riddle behind that artistic danger (and its taming) throughout author and journalist Rich Cohen's (Tough Jews, The Avengers) captivating new book, The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones (Spiegel & Grau, 2016), and it coils through the narrative like an electrical current seeking ground. Having been drawn to their music at ten, by an older brother who was exiled to the attic of their parents' home with his music, Cohen would ultimately become a writer and journalist covering The Stones as they toured in the Nineties (right at a time where their music was long passed the potency that once stirred him as an adolescent). Using the subject of time as a key metaphor to parse brilliance from longevity, The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones (a gift title from Keith Richards who realizes that The Stones have been a constant in this young writer's life) is made up of fan notes that are cured in a quick critical eye. Cohen fully understands how the distance his generation has had from The Stones' greatest moments is both a handicap and a blessing. "Time would always separate me from these guys, from this generation," he writes without a trace of bitterness for being born at the wrong time. "Above us, the baby boomers., who consumed every resource and every kind of fun. Below us, the millennials, the children of the baby boomers, who've remade the world into something virtual and cold. The boomers consumed their childhood, then, in a sense, consumed our childhoods, too. They overimbibed, lived to such excess there's nothing left for us but to tell the story." Cohen's story has the power to shrink time so that each song he invokes quickly regains its ability to shock and surprise.
Labels: Books, Kevin Courrier, Music
Broadway to the Small Screen: Early TV Musicals
Keith Andes and Barbara Cook in Bloomer Girl (1956)
In the heyday of live TV (the fifties), weekly and monthly series regularly offered abridged versions of plays, and between 1954 and 1956 one show, Max Liebman Spectaculars (a.k.a. Max Liebman Presents), which aired every fourth Sunday evening, produced ninety-minute adaptations of Broadway musicals as well as variety showcases and a handful of original musicals. (Liebman was better known for producing the inspired Sid Caesar-Imogene Coca sketch comedy, Your Show of Shows, one of the high-water marks of early television.) Surprisingly NBC preserved these musicals on kinescope, and several have surfaced on DVDs from Video Artists International, which has added to its repertory a couple of the early Hallmark Hall of Fame musicals and one from Producer's Showcase. The result is a treasure trove for musical-theatre aficionados like me – especially since some of these shows have never been picked up by Hollywood (Bloomer Girl, A Connecticut Yankee and Dearest Enemy) and others were seriously altered – plots rewritten, scores decimated – in the movie versions. One Touch of Venus, for instance, reached the big screen with only a handful of the delightful Kurt Weill-Ogden Nash tunes intact; the Victor Herbert operetta Naughty Marietta and the Oscar Strauss import The Chocolate Soldier were retooled as Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy vehicles. (You wouldn't know from the movie of The Chocolate Soldier that it was originally a musicalization – OK, a bowdlerization – of Shaw's satirical romantic comedy Arms and the Man.) There is a crummy movie musical called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court starring Bing Crosby, but the longer title, which replicates the name of the Mark Twain comic novel, alerts owl-eyed movie buffs that it isn't based on the hit show by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, which was produced on Broadway in 1927 and revived in 1943, at the very end of their collaboration.
Labels: Steve Vineberg, Television, Theatre
The Obsessions of George W. Bush: Jean Edward Smith's Bush
(l.to r. Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld)
"I am the commander. I don't need to explain. That's the interesting thing about being president. I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."
– George W. Bush
In the first full-fledged biography of the forty-third President, Bush (Simon & Schuster, 2016), the first sentence of the preface, reads: "Rarely in the history of the United States has the nation been so ill-served as during the presidency of George W. Bush." The reader may well ask who is the author and is he credible. Jean Edward Smith is not a left-wing critic of Bush but a respected scholar who has written several well-received biographies of Ulysses Grant, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, General Lucius Clay (the military governor of occupied Germany after World War II and hero of the Berlin airlift), and John Marshall, the distinguished Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the early nineteenth century, an oeuvre that inspired the conservative pundit, George F. Will, to describe Smith as "America's greatest living biographer."
Given these distinguished credentials, I was intrigued to read Smith's hefty volume at eight hundred pages. Besides, I had spent months years ago reading and writing about Bush's responses to 9/11, his invasions into Afghanistan and Iraq and I did wonder whether I got it right. Based on Smith's exhaustively researched and fluidly written biography, I did feel affirmed. If anything Smith's judgments on "Asleep at the Switch" – the chapter title for Bush's lack of attention to security before September 11 – his overreaction to that tragic day by his decisions to invade two countries, the erosion of civil liberties and "The Torture Trail" – another snappy chapter heading for which Smith excels – constitute a more devastating critique of Bush's years, especially with regard to foreign affairs. Yet there are surprises as Smith credits Bush with a number of achievements. By mining the important secondary sources, the memoirs of the historical actors, numerous periodicals, government records, and speeches, and – apart from Bush himself – several interviews with key participants, Smith has skillfully synthesized them into a three-dimensional portrait of Bush.
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Renewable energy power generators installed under the scheme will sell power surplus to local utilities Labrador Hydro and Newfoundland Power starting from July 2017.
The Public Utilities Board of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada's easternmost province, has approved a net metering policy for renewable energy power generators with a capacity of up to 100 kW.
The Provincial Net Metering Policy Framework was released by the local government in July 2015.
The scheme will be open to customers of local power provider Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro and Newfoundland Power Inc. and to power generators from wind, photovoltaic, geothermal, biomass, tidal, or wave energy sources of 100 kW or less up to a system total limit of 5 MW.
Under the framework, the two utilities are responsible for developing and implementing net metering programs for their respective clients.
The government specified that both utilities will be updating their websites with additional information in the coming weeks and expect to be in a position to begin accepting customer net metering applications effective July 1, 2017.


The new Geopon app, which targets the growing mobile coupon market, will keep Lynn Lewis Public Relations on retainer. The continued partnership will be leveraged to launch its mobile platform that combines geo-targeted coupons and savings with electronic reward programs and payment processing.
Ido Meros, CEO of Geopon.com decided to stay with Lewis Public Relations because of their results. Meros explains: "We retained Lynn Lewis Public Relations because of their proven track record, industry experience and strong media connections on a local, national and international level…Lynn's grasp of the Geopon ecosystem which consists of many different functions and features eased the vetting process.


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Renewable power generation
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's greenhouse gas emissions fell sharply last year, putting the country's 2020 climate goal within reach again. A report released Tuesday by the think tank Agora Energiewende found that emissions fell by 6.5% in 2019 compared with the previous year — equivalent to 50 million...
Montana coal power plant closing two units built in 1970s
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — One of the largest coal-fired power plants in the western U.S. will close two of its four units by Saturday as the Montana facility edges toward an eventual total shutdown. Colstrip Units 1 and 2 — built in the 1970s when massive strip mines were being developed across...
The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam stands in the Xingu River in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. With the start of full-scale operations three weeks ago, debate over its legacy, and whether its construction was worth local sacrifice, is coming into focus. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Brazil's Amazon mega-dam: broken promises for distant power
ALTAMIRA, Brazil (AP) — Edizangela Alves Barros believed that being forced to relocate to make way for a mammoth dam in Brazil's Amazon would mean a brighter future for her family. Instead, their newly built settlement has more expensive electricity bills and intermittent public lighting -- a cruel...
In this Nov. 27, 2019, photo, a solar panel installation is seen in Ruicheng County in central China's Shanxi Province. As world leaders gather in Madrid to discuss how to slow the warming of the planet, a spotlight is falling on China, the top emitter of greenhouse gases. China burns about half the coal used globally each year. Yet it's also the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)
China's climate paradox: A leader in coal and clean energy
WASHINGTON (AP) — As world leaders gather in Spain to discuss how to slow the warming of the planet, a spotlight falls on China — the top emitter of greenhouse gases. China burns about half the coal used globally each year. Between 2000 and 2018, its annual carbon emissions nearly tripled, and it...
This Aug. 19, 2019, image shows the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz. The power plant will close before the year ends, upending the lives of hundreds of mostly Native American workers who mined coal, loaded it and played a part in producing electricity that powered the American Southwest. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
Long-running coal plant on Navajo Nation stops production
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A massive coal-fired power plant that served customers in the West for nearly 50 years shut down Monday, the latest closure in a shift away from coal and toward renewable energy and cheaper power. The Navajo Generating Station near the Arizona-Utah line was expected to...
FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007, file photo Robert Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp., arrives at a news conference at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine, in northwest of Huntington, Utah. Ohio-based Murray Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Former CEO Robert Murray said the move was necessary to access liquidity and best position the company for long-term success. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Coal giant Murray Energy seeks bankruptcy protection
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A major U.S. coal mining company is seeking bankruptcy protection, despite a flurry of regulatory breaks that its CEO pushed for — and received — from the Trump administration. Ohio-based Murray Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization Tuesday, joining a...
FILE - This May 6, 2013 file photo shows a wind turbine farm owned by PacifiCorp near Glenrock, Wyo. The military wants North Dakota and perhaps four other states with nuclear missile arsenals to consider new rules aimed at preventing conflicts between wind turbines and helicopters that provide security at launch facilities. Defense Department and Air Force officials were meeting Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019 with North Dakota lawmakers and regulatory officials. (AP Photo/Matt Young, File)
Military wants more rules for turbines near nuclear missiles
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The military wants North Dakota and four other states with nuclear missile arsenals to consider introducing new rules aimed at preventing conflicts between wind turbines and helicopters that provide security at launch facilities. Department of Defense and Air Force officials...
A firefighter sprays water on a burning home as the Kincade Fire burns through the Jimtown community of unincorporated Sonoma County, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
The Latest: Northern California wildfire burns 49 buildings
GEYSERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the wildfires in California (all times local): 7:40 p.m. Authorities say a wind-whipped fire in Northern California's wine country has burned 49 buildings and prompted evacuation orders for 2,000 people. The fire that began Wednesday night near Geyserville...
FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2019 photo, McGregor Scott, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, stands next to a 1967 Ford Shelby GT 500, that was seized along with other cars by the federal government that are now housed in a warehouse in Woodland, Calif. Two employees of a defunct San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company pleaded guilty Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, to participating in what federal prosecutors say was a massive $2.5 billion fraud scheme that defrauded investors of $1 billion. It's the largest single-owner car collection ever auctioned by the U.S. Marshals Service, with vehicles to be auctioned off on Wednesday. (Randy Pench/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
2 guilty in $1B fraud as feds auction Burt Reynolds Trans Am
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two employees of a San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in what federal prosecutors say was a massive scheme that defrauded investors of $1 billion. While the company's owners have not been charged, they agreed to let the...
JoDe Goudy, chairman of the Yakama Nation, speaks with the Columbia River in the background near The Dalles, Oregon, on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, where Celilo Falls, an ancient salmon fishing site was destroyed by the construction of the Dalles Dam in the 1950s. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
Pacific Northwest tribes: Remove Columbia River dams
THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — Two Pacific Northwest tribes on Monday demanded the removal of three major hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River to save migrating salmon and starving orcas and restore fishing sites that were guaranteed to the tribes in a treaty more than 150 years ago. The Yakama and...


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Author: Sarah Granger
Sarah Granger has 20 years of experience in the intersection of technology and government, including policy, politics, new media and open democracy projects. An award-winning writer and new media strategist, she is a contributing editor at techPresident, The Huffington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle at SFGate.com. She was a contributing author of Ethical Hacking and she has edited four books on government 2.0, mobile security, cryptography and biometrics. Sarah is the former Project Director for the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and she served as a senior strategist for Project One Page, a smart crowdsourcing platform. Previously, Sarah directed the first blog launched by a national politician, and she worked in cybersecurity for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and California Maritime Academy after finishing a degree in "Technology & Society" at the University of Michigan. She advises public sector organizations on new media and technology through PublicEdge. Last year, Sarah led a Core Conversation at South by Southwest Interactive on "Whitehouse.gov 2.0: Upgrading to Open Source Government." She has been a speaker or organizer for Gov 2.- Expo, Gov 2.0 Camp LA, Netroots Nation, 140 Twitter, Cybersalon, ACM Policy, U.S. Policies for the Information Society, CA Data Camp and the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference. She served as a delegate to the World Summit on the Information Society at the U.N. in Geneva in 2003 and she is a council member of the U.S. Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) public policy committee and digital government working group. Sarah can be found at SarahGranger.com and on Twitter as @sarahgranger.
Where are the women in e-government, tech policy and politics?
The question has again been asked, where are the women leaders and innovators in e-government, digital diplomacy, online politics, tech policy and related?
Celebrating International Women's Day with 100+ women in government technology
Today is International Women's Day. Women's organizations around the world will be celebrating and talking about all kinds of women's issues, including our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who launched a bold new initiative.
100+ Women in Government & Technology
I like making lists, so when GovFresh invited me to put together a list of women involved in government and technology efforts, I jumped at the chance. But although top ten lists are wildly popular, I've met so many incredible people working on Gov 2.0, open government, e-gov efforts that I thought the world needed a better glimpse of the breadth of involvement women have at all levels of government, in nonprofits, academia, conferences, media and the private sector. The hope is that this list will allow event organizers, members of the media, other list makers, etc. to easily build a diverse representation in their projects.


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World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition
Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes
Michael Percillier
| University of Mannheim
Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding Circle distinction and shed light on the genesis of postcolonial varieties of English. The study identifies and analyses more than thirty linguistic features in the categories phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse, concluding that in spite of clear syntactic differences, the distinction between the Outer and Expanding Circles is gradual rather than strictly categorical, and should rely on current sociolinguistic realities rather than on historical criteria. The volume will be highly relevant for researchers interested in the dynamics of Outer Circle and Expanding Circle Englishes, the structural and sociolinguistic aspects of English in Southeast Asia, or the integration of the paradigms of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition.
World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition received honourable mention at the 2018 ESSE Book Awards.
[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.
List of maps, figures and tables
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Chapter 2: Historical overview
Chapter 3: English in postcolonial Southeast Asia
Chapter 4: Theories and models for a comparative study of second-language varieties and learner Englishes
Chapter 5: Data & Methodology
Chapter 6: A comparative feature inventory
Chapter 7: Origin of features, register variation, ethnic L1 and learner proficiency
Chapter 8: Implications for postcolonial Englishes and the ESL/EFL distinction
Chapter 9: Conclusion and outlook
"In a series of meticulous corpus-based studies, Michael Percillier investigates dynamic developments in the use of English in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Readers interested in Englishes in South East Asia will appreciate the up-to-date empirical findings. His explorations of the increasingly fluid boundaries between English as a Native Language (ENL), English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language / English as a Lingua Franca(EFL/ELF) will be of interest to the entire World Englishes community."
Christian Mair, University of Freiburg
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I am a thoroughly non-ritualistic person and I don't mean no disrespect. I love festivals like any other person. I celebrate and enjoy them too but I like to adhere to more logical/ traditional explanation and relevance of the same rather than the customs that the society had developed over years.Same goes for Karvachauth. I fast, I do my pooja and I pray for my husband's health and well-being. But find myself cringing away from the red saris, mehendi rituals and all the other paraphernalia that's developing new sales strategies around it . Don't get me wrong, I have no qualms against for the girls who do it. Girl! if it makes you happy go do it! and enjoy in thoroughly!!! I am just saying its not my thing.
Like, why is it celebrated on this particular day? Is the alignment of the moon and the energies it radiates around on this day conducive to a more fulfilling and happy married life?
Did our elders, who were extremely perceptive about the rhythms and cycles of natural phenomenons feel something change on this day that made them conceptualize this festival?
Or is it because the moon carries an Orange tint on this night which reminds one of the relevance of this color in the wedding rituals( the sindoor, the red sari and the likes)?
Could it be because the Karik Chaturthi moon suddenly seems to pop out from the middle of the horizon?
Or is it because this moon is different and more beautiful than all other nights of the year and to make sure that it was given its due attention this festival is celebrated?
The reason could be anything. All I am saying is I wish I had more answers than questions about this day. However, I do feel that the rituals were also developed to keep women from thinking about food all day long, which would otherwise trivialize the whole point of fasting, and I respect that. My Karvachauth ritual is around this technique.
We have been doing this for so many years now that I've forgotten when we started. So, once my husband is back from work on this day we move out for a drive, not towards the city but towards Mumbai's few hilltops. Earlier we used to head towards the edge of Goregaon these days its Powai hill. So, we drive up to a hill and spend some time quality time there chit chatting, waiting for the moon. And when it comes out I do my pooja , even touch my husband's feet (this one day in the year ). We are equal partners but I do believe he deserves my love and respect and I feel blessed and grateful that I get to share my life with him. On a lighter note, also because I like to believe that I am not a compulsive rebel. Now come to think of it, that's the thing about customs and traditions they slowly creep in without you being aware about them. And I love that part.
So that's about it. How do you celebrate your Karvachauth ? Have you also , like me, drifted into a ritual while claiming all the time that you are not into it? Let me know, I would love hear about it.


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Red Deer's Ray Baird performs 'I Saw a City Burning,' a song created from his Second World War veteran uncle's lyrics and music that Baird wrote. Unfortunately, he said, the song seems as timely today as when it was written. (Photo by Lana Michelin/Advocate staff)
WATCH: Anti-war song sadly timely in 2022, says Red Deer man, who set his veteran uncle's poetry to music
Ray Baird performed the tune about London Blitz at 15 nursing homes in the city
The song's poignant lyrics are from a poem written by a D-Day survivor during the Second World War.
Unfortunately, the sentiments of this anti-war tune are as timely today — with the Russia invasion of Ukraine — as when the poem was first penned by Canadian soldier George Johnson after the London Blitz of 1940 and 1941.
"War devastated the civilian population. It devastated my grandmother's children," said Johnson's nephew Baird, who set the words to I Saw a City Burning to music in 2005.
The Red Deer musician thought of his late uncle's poem whenever newscasts showed bombings in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.
The Russian invasion was the main news story of 2022, instilling fears across the globe of a possible Third World War. The contemporary conflict was much in Baird's thoughts as he performed I Saw a City Burning for residents of 15 Red Deer nursing homes around Remembrance Day.
Each time he sang:"I always will remember that dark and starless night… when the bombers in the distance broke the silence of the night…. I saw a city burning while planes few overhead…" he saw tears in listeners' eyes — "particular the war brides because they experienced that," said Baird.
His uncle, who was from Carrot River, Sask., was training to fight the Nazis in Europe when he wrote the poem.
Stationed at an army base just outside London, Johnson was witness to the human suffering caused by the Blitz, said Baird, whose three older brothers also fought in the Second World War.
"People would go down into the bomb shelters at night and come up the next morning and their whole street would be gone," he recalled his uncle telling him.
Sometimes dead civilians would be found among the rubble and broken belongings.
Johnson later fought on Juno Beach on D-Day and survives to see VE-Day. But he never spoke much about his wartime experiences, preferring to write about them as poetry.
In 1955, Baird had been a 21-year-old home on leave from his own army career. Late one night at a family gathering, he recalled his uncle first shared the poem I Saw A City Burning.
"He asked me if I could set it to music," Baird recalled, "and I said I would," but he soon forgot about the promise.
Now an 88-year-old, Baird doesn't remember being particularly struck by the poem at the time. However, many years after his uncle's death in the 1970s, Baird saw the words again family memorabilia shared at another gathering in about 2005.
With more lived experience under his belt, he was very much affected by his uncle's poem this time, and thought it high time he fulfilled his promise.
It didn't take Baird long to compose the music. The retired agricultural industry worker explained he has been writing his own songs for many years, performing them at community functions and recording three CDs.
I Saw a City Burning is now part of his repertoire. Whenever he sings about "the women old and grey," his wife, Linda, said she gets goosebumps, thinking of her own parents escaping from Austria (then part of Czechoslovakia) just before the German invasion.
Her father, who had openly opposed Hitler, had been on a hit list, she added, so was lucky to be smuggled out of the country with her mother to resettle in Canada.
Linda noted wars are constantly being fought around the world, including in Ukraine, where the Russian invasion will be a year old in February. "The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and think of all the wars there've been since…
"There's a world of tortured people out there," she added, so it would be amazing if everyone could finally have a peaceful New Year.
Meanwhile, Ray will keep singing I Saw a City Burning for anyone who wants to hear it. The song is important, he said, because it brings to the forefront the human costs of war.
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